III · The traveller's journey
Coming to Gabon
The journey to live an initiation with Ebando, in a few pages.
Libreville · Akanda · Sablière
I · Before you leave
Coming to Ebando is not booking a stay. It is preparing an encounter. The journey takes time: a visa to obtain, a vaccination to plan ahead, a flight to choose, a team to notify. Allow two to four months between your first curiosity and your arrival in Libreville. Time is part of the process.
We are not a travel agency. We are a non-profit association that welcomes you. You do not book a package online — you write to the team, you talk, you fill out the pre-initiation questionnaire, and it is together that the session is confirmed for you. The pages that follow bring together the essentials: formalities, what to bring, contribution, sessions.
II · Where to find us
Ebando, 15 minutes from the airport.
Akanda, the Sablière neighbourhood, beach 50 metres away. A map to set the distances.
Libreville
Capital
You land here at Léon-Mba international airport. ATMs are available. Tata can point you to the nearest ones when you arrive.
Akanda
Ebando's site
Coastal town 15 minutes from the airport. The team comes to pick you up: this transfer is included in the contribution.
La Sablière
Neighbourhood
Beach 50 metres away. Accommodation in a private room or a comfortable tent on the upper terrace, within earshot of the waves. Fresh, local meals, three a day.
Four doors
The full journey, in four pages.
Visa & logistics
Flight, visa, M'bolo Tours, yellow fever, malaria. The practical steps, one by one.
See the steps
What to bring
Clothes, gifts for the team, money, state of mind. And the legal rules to respect.
See the list
Contribution & terms
The financial framework of your visit, 2026 rates, transfer and payment terms.
See the terms2026 sessions
The transmission windows for initiations with Ebando — one session per month.
See the sessions
III · The country
Gabon in a few lines.
Gabon is a Central African country opening onto the Atlantic. The equatorial forest covers nearly 85% of the territory. The climate is hot and humid, paced by two seasons, one dry, the other rainy.
It is also a high place of the spirit: Bwiti, in its various Fang and Mitsogho lineages, has been practised there for centuries by the forest's first peoples. Gabon has at times been called a “centre of religious initiation in Africa” by the ethnologists who worked there.
Ebando is based in Akanda, on the coast, close to Libreville. The place blends simplicity and warmth: house, terrace within earshot of the waves, beach 50 metres away, a Gabonese and foreign team settled on site for years.
Gabon's culture, rich, alive, passed on.
Come accompanied
A relay in Europe.
The Origin, chaired by Reliba (Kombó) in the Netherlands, accompanies circles of initiates to Gabon, alongside Ebando.
Discover The OriginWhen you are ready, write to us.
The first exchange is free, with no commitment. It simply serves to meet one another.